94% of people held in the SDF-controlled Al-Hawl Camp are women and children: UN coordinator in Syria

United Nations Resident Coordinator in Syria Imran Rida has revealed that around 94% of the people held in Al-Hawl Refugee Camp, which is controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) separatist militia in Hasakah, are women and children.

In a statement on Wednesday, Rida said that these people are suffering from growing insecurity, severe shortages in water, medicine and food and from tragic living conditions amid fears that the children are growing up there without a future.

“The place is insecure and very difficult to live in. 106 people, most of them women, have been killed in the camp since January 2021,” Rida said, pointing out that 27,000 Iraqis, 18,000-19,000 Syrians and 12,000 from other nationalities are held as hostages in this camp.

The refugees held in Al-Hawl Camp are continuously exploited by the SDF militia to serve its political and separatist agenda.

The UN coordinator clarified that many countries, which have to accept the return of their nationals from Syria, are refusing to do so, stressing that the only solution is to evacuate the camp from the refugees.

Syria and Russia have repeatedly warned of the deteriorating living conditions in the areas controlled by the US occupation and the SDF militia, especially in Al-Hawl camp, where ISIS terrorists continue to commit crimes with the support of the US occupation which supplies them with weapons, ammunition and logistic materials.

  Hamda Mustafa